suicide prevention
Saving at-risk lives
Suicide prevention encompasses efforts to reduce the risk of people taking their own lives.
This includes crisis intervention services like hotlines, mental health treatment, restricting access to lethal means, and training people to recognize warning signs in others.
The bridge installed barriers as a suicide prevention measure.
The field emphasizes that suicidal crises are often temporary and survivable with appropriate support.
- depressionProlonged low state
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- talk therapyPsychological treatment via conversation
- assistanceSupport or aid given
- mental healthEmotional and cognitive well-being
warning signs · asking for help · health care · risk assessment · self-harm · crisis hotline · primary care · health policy · safety planning · peer support · support group · coping · behavioral health · check-in · resources · lifeline · wellness · crisis
- Military Mental HealthPTSD, combat stress, combat trauma, shell shock, battle fatigue
- social workcase notes, person-centered, fieldwork, community development, clinical practice
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
- mental wellnessmental health support, self-care, mental wellness, emotional wellness, coping skills
- public healthimmunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology, community health
- health educationhealth education, health curriculum, school health, health literacy, health videos
suicide preventionassisted suicide
Helping someone end life
euthanasia · killing · homicide · murder
suicide preventiongrief counseling
Professional support through mourning
crisis response · survivor support · bereavement support · trauma response · bereavement services
suicide preventionright to die
Freedom to end suffering
death with dignity · voluntary euthanasia · aid in dying · physician-assisted death · non-intervention
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